Eagle Tech Consus D-Series 2xSATA External Raid Storage Review

The newly released Consus D-Series 3.5inch hard drive enclosure provides room from 2 HDDS, it supports Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS 10.2 or above in Raid 0 or JBOD via USB and Firewire. When high capacity is what you are after together with safe off-site backup, this could be what you are looking for. Now, let´s find out what the D-series can deliver.

Temperature/Exhaust & Conclusion

Temperature/Exhaust:

The front air intake grill has 5 slots with which you could hardly slide in a piece of letter size paper tells you how restrictive if any air could get in.

The exhaust is less restrictive in comparison, but not much better. Using an external probe, I measured 48°C HDD surface temp on the one that is "on top" at 24°C room temp.

Conclusion:

Is two better than one when you have two extra small capacity SATA hard drives sitting around after an upgrade? At a retail price of ~$70 you could get two Eagle Consus T or M series for less; especially when software operated Raid 0 does not give any speed increase over JBOD spanning or Single Drive via USB or Firewire.

It would be a different story if Raid 1 was implemented instead of Raid 0, since there is no gain in using Raid 0 for the sake of more secure data protection.

PROS Ability to use two HDDs in a single external housing USB & Firewire connections